I have played several MMO's and have always wondered if folks would be willing to gamble the life of their max-level character in exchange for an exclusive title. If Arena Net created an ultimate boss that would be a difficult challenge for a small group of level 80 characters and granted an exclusive title for a victory would you be willing to try it?

If you win, everyone knows from the title that you took the ultimate challenge. The downside is that if you were to lose, the character dies (as in DEAD, DECEASED, NO REVIVE)

You know as wwell as most, that the only 80 that anyone would use would be the one with the bare minimum of '80-ism'...I doubt there would be that large of a % of hard core players in this game that would be willing to place a 3000 hour 80 in such a place....

I would definitely try until I got it. The only problem I would face is that once I got it on one character, my main character(s) would be jealous. So then I'd try to get it on them, and probably die. Then I'd quit the game.

It does if you have played the character before the update, I'm going to assume most people will want this title on their "main" character. Also going to assume this title will be character bound and not account bound or everyone will just use trash crafted 80s until they get it, making it a worthless title. Therefor if this were ever implemented into the game, it would be at a time where A LOT of players will have invested A LOT of hours in their main character.

It does if you have played the character before the update, I'm going to assume most people will want this title on their "main" character. Also going to assume this title will be character bound and not account bound or everyone will just use trash crafted 80s until they get it, making it a worthless title. Therefor if this were ever implemented into the game, it would be at a time where A LOT of players will have invested A LOT of hours in their main character.

titles are account wide, like matsif mentioned dungeon master title, its on every character

Depends on which side of the spectrum of ANet boss design it's on.
If it's on the "1-shot mechanics with no animation" side, no.
If it's on the "AoE the 500 mob swarm" side, yes.
If it's on the "10 minute slugfest with easy-to-avoid mechanics with no challenge", yes.

maybe the OP needs to specify, does this mean, if you die during the encounter period? or if your entire party dies and the boss resets and you effectively have failed the content?

ive died during encounters only to be fully revived within a few minutes and continue to fight and down the boss and thus clearing hte content.

He means that if you fail the boss you die completely, your character dies and can never be revived. You literary lose your character if you die. I think he means then that if your group fails every character in that group will permanently die.

I'd personally only do it if I had the group of skilled people to do it with and if the title had a insanely epic emote to it or something.

The community would burn through some gold crafting sacrificial alts up to level 80, but once the boss mechanics were discovered it wouldn't really be much of a gamble anymore. The boss would be designed to be defeated, so as usual it would just be a matter of learning when to dodge/block/invuln/reflect.

There once you hit level 20 (which is the cap unless you want to go epic) you can choose to kill you character in return for some wings on your name, a change in rank and 2 more build points. You get to keep all you old gear in a special withdraw only bank.

There's also a bonus if you live a life as each profession, which is a huge task as the XP requirement to level increases each life up to the third where it's about 2~3 times as much as a first lifer.

People do it, but I'd say more for the actual perks rather than the title changes.

I would like to see something similar here, but I'd say the WIN condition would have to be linked to the DEATH i.e. you only get the title if you succeed, and you die; fail the mission and you live on at 80 to try again...

Some bonus to the toon would be nice, perhaps access to one utility from a previous life's profession. But that's a balance nightmare.

I am sure there are anal-retentives out there that go ga-ga for any new title and would chase one such as this, no matter the cost.

Now that they are moving into China, with a market of millions of communist repressed indivuduals hungry for 'tltes' that will make them stand out from the throng, I expect to see more stuff like this, not less.

He means that if you fail the boss you die completely, your character dies and can never be revived. You literary lose your character if you die. I think he means then that if your group fails every character in that group will permanently die.

I'd personally only do it if I had the group of skilled people to do it with and if the title had a insanely epic emote to it or something.

you are misunderstanding me, im asking if you die DURING the boss battle are you denied a chance of revival? or can you get revived and kill the boss and get the title?